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Summer Street Bridge, Spanning Reserved Channel, Boston, Suffolk County, MA
Summary
Significance: The Summer Street Bridge (over Reserved Channel) is the older of two known retractile drawbridges surviving in Massachusetts, and one of only four known to survive in the United States. The Summer Street Bridge is an advanced example of an unusual bridge type which eventually gave way to simpler, less expensive types of movable bridges in the twentieth century.
Survey number: HAER MA-135
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Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Location
boston, 42.34315, -71.02172
Source
Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
